Drinking Green Tea Is Not Associated With Risk Of Breast Cancer

Drinking Green Tea Is Not Associated With Risk Of Breast Cancer.
Although some scrutiny has suggested that drinking leafy tea might help defend women from breast cancer, a new, large Japanese study comes to a different conclusion. "We found no overall friendship between green tea intake and the risk of breast cancer among Japanese women who have habitually under the table green tea," said lead researcher Dr Motoki Iwasaki, from the Epidemiology and Prevention Division at the Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo. "Our findings suggest that amateurish tea intake within a usual drinking proclivity is unattractive to reduce the risk of breast cancer".

The report is published in the Oct. 28 online descendant of the journal Breast Cancer Research. For the study, Iwasaki's team controlled data on 53,793 women who were surveyed between 1995 and 1998. As part of the survey, the women were asked how much environmental tea they drank.

This question was asked at the start of the study and again five years later. During the approve survey, the researchers asked about two different types of immature tea, Sencha and Bancha/Genmaicha. Among the women, 12 percent drank less than one cup of wet behind the ears tea a week, while 27 percent drank five or more cups a day, the researchers found. The think over also included women who drank 10 or more cups a day.